Financial Rewards:
Financial Rewards
More than 4,000 False Claim suits have been filed since 1986, when the statute was strengthened to make it easier and more rewarding for private citizens to file suit on the government’s behalf. The government has recovered over $6 billion as a result of the suits, of which over $1 billion has been paid to Relators / whistleblowers. Generally, only the Relator who is the first to file a lawsuit can be rewarded for reporting the fraud. Even if one person uncovers the fraud, someone else can file the lawsuit first and bar the first whistleblower from sharing in any recovery.
Examples of Whistleblower Settlements Under the False Claims Act
1) HCA [Hospital Corporation of America] - paid $731,400,000
2) HCA [Hospital Corporation of America] - paid $631,000,000
3) TAP [Taketa-Abbott Pharmaceutical] Pharmaceutical Products Inc. - paid $559,483,560
4) Abbott Labs - paid $400,000,000
5) Fresenius Medical Care of North America - paid $385,000,000
6) SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories - paid 325,000,000
6) HealthSouth - paid $325,000,000
7) National Medical Enterprises - paid $324,200,000
8) Gambro Healthcare - paid $310,000,000
9) Schering-Plough - paid $292,969,482
10) AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals - paid $266,127,844
There are many, many other cases that settled for in the $5 million to $100 million range. For detailed information regarding the underlying facts of each of the above cases and other cases please request the Free Information Packet.
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